The best looking phone ever with great performance and hardware keyboard

Vioner has owned it for more than one year before publishing this review

This phone, to me is the most good-looking one.

I don't mind that it's thick - it's actually a pro for me - I feel it in my pocket
Performance is quite nice, however 367 (or something like that) MB of RAM is a little bit too less to keep the multitasking well working.
Hardware keyboard is great and ergonomic.
It's tough - falled so many times in mountains on bike rides and nothing severe happened.
This model has a malfunctioning intermal memory chip - a series of devices have it, but not all of them. It can stop working anytime, whenever u don't expect it to.
Battery is too weak to handle this device IMO.

Cons

A good phone, with some issues

Shane_IL has owned it for less than year before publishing this review

This was a great phone overall, does everything expected of it and excells against most contemporaries. I liked having a solid keyboard, I use my phone for emails a lot and this makes life easier. The build has some weakpoints as stated. Somehow the capacitative buttons at the bottom (home, back, search, menu) got overloaded and stopped working. There is no way to replicate their functions with software and now the phone is somewhat useless.

stodmanposted on23 Jul 2011, 04:44

5

the good the bad and the ugly..

stodman has owned it for less than year before publishing this review

i made the leap from a nokia e97mini to the htc. After 4 months of use, i hate it. I have problems with signal strength compared to my old phone on the same network. It drops calls all the time, the battery life is less than 1 day( with autoupdate options off!). It has NO bluetooth voicedialing support ( this is an android limitation). The phone is fast to respond, load apps etc, the screen is good quality altho very hard to see in sunlight. the build quality while not bad, feels very flimsy with the keyboard flipped out.

Build quality8/10good over all. but some dodgy button placement, and flimsy when keyboard is flipped out

Reception3/10pretty crap compared to my nokia on the same network. constantly drops calls, or takes a long time to jump from mast to mast as u travel

Call quality5/10again so so. picks up alot of background noise, also the volume wont go high enough if u need to use where there is noise

Internet10/10fast, easy. job done

Multimedia10/10again simple and intuitive. no complaints

Camera8/10its good. can be very good at times. seems a bit hit and miss with image quality sometimes ( altho that could be me)

UI speed9/10fast, does the job very well. only slows down when using those active wallpapers but even then pretty good

Everyday usage2/10I drive all day, everyday. with the reception issues/call quality and total lack of bluetooth voice dialing. its a total chore to use in my line of work

Text input10/10via screen or keyboard its good!

Display10/10good screen, big and easy to read

Battery2/10battery life is pretty crap after 4 months im down to about 8 hours with average to high call useage

a very good phone

dollar_2080 has owned it for less than month before publishing this review

just if it had a better battery it will be a perfect device.
very good quality in every thing, i am waiting for the update of android from 2.2 to 2.3
it will be just better and better if you are a practical person you shoud have this phone immediately you won't regret it.

FlareBlitzposted on17 May 2011, 06:12

9

Great Phone

FlareBlitz has owned it for less than 3 months before publishing this review

This is my first smartphone and it's by far the best phone I've had. Took a while to find out how to access everything, but now I'm used to it it's brilliant. Had a couple of problems - firstly, after having the phone for about a week, it decided to delete all of my texts. It's not happened again since but I don't understand why it happened at all. Secondly, the gallery sometimes decides not to show more recent pictures - don't know why it does this. Apart from that it's a great phone - looks smart, Z-hinge is a bit of a novelty, internet access is great - would definitely recommend.

Build quality9/10Looks awesome, only concern is the Z hinge, doesn't look very solid, but not had any problems so far.

Reception10/10I live somewhere with bad signal, but the reception is nowhere near as bad with this phone as it was with previous handsets.

Call quality10/10

Internet10/10Internet access is great.

Multimedia8/10Pictures and videos are unbelievably clear, however sometimes the gallery decides not to show more recent pictures (no idea why) so I can only access them by connecting the phone to my laptop.

Camera8/10Camera is pretty good, but last phone was a Samsung Tocco Ultra (8 megapixel camera) so used to better photos. Camera display is brilliant.

UI speed7/10Generally pretty fast but occasionally it takes a while for the phone to register that you've selected something.

Everyday usage9/10

Text input10/10Text input on the qwerty keypad is great, nice sized keys, even the text input on the touchscreen is not too bad either.

Display10/10Display is the best I've seen on a phone. Definition is brilliant.

Battery3/10Awful battery life - have to charge every day. Shame as otherwise the phone would be near on perfect.

Pros

Cons

Not so scary

legionista has owned it for less than month before publishing this review

It's my first smartphone and now I feel ashamed, that I was scared of this transition. Battery can last 2-3 days (about 2-4 hours of wi-fi, mail & weather synchronization, 1 hour of Angry Birds), physical keyboard is graet. I am only afraid, that Z-hinge won't last long.

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